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Quotations: Leadership, governance, politics Leadership is action, not position. - Donald H. McGannon, businessman Lives of great people remind us we can make our lives sublime and, departing, in the sand of time. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "poet (1807-1882) [Because power corrupts] Society's demands for moral authority and character in rease a importance of the position increases. - John Adams, American Founding Father and second U.S. president (1735-1826 Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and - Unknown The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction nd will o carry on. - Walter Lippmann, American journalist, author and public philosopher (1889-19 4) If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us s intly. B t since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, odesty, 'ustice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes. - Sir Thomas More in the movie A Man For All Seasons (1966, screenplay by Rob rt Bolt) Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. - George Washington, American Founding Father and war hero, first U.S. The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their ruler - John Adams, American Founding Father and second U.S. president (1735-1826. behii (1734~1799) footprints the dreaded Character is the only secure foundation of the state. - Calvin Coolidge, 30th American president (1872-1933) A man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief amon not virtuous. - Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine dramatist, political analyst and adviser (1469-1 so 7) who are With all the power that a president has, the most important thing to bear in mind s this: u must not give power to a man unless, above everything else, he has character. Character is the mo important qualification the president of the United States can have. - Richard Nixon, 37th U.S. president (1913-1994), from N ad for Barry Goldwat rs presi ential campaign in 1964 All leaders must face some crisis where their own strength of character is the e - Richard Reeves, 20th-century American journalist and essayist Y. t~ ~ ~